Judgment unanimously reversed on the law and indictment dismissed.
Memorandum:
The trial court instructed the jury that they were required to find, as an essential element of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, that defendant possessed a dangerous instrument, a knife, and with respect to charges of unlawful imprisonment and menacing, that defendant used the knife in threatening or exposing the victim to serious physical injury. Given this...
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